iliad
IPA: ˈɪɫiʌd
Root Word: Iliad
noun
- A famous ancient Greek epic poem about the Trojan War, attributed to Homer.
- A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of the above-mentioned Homeric text.
- Any long tragic story.
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Examples of "iliad" in Sentences
- For the last line of the 'Iliad',
- It's the major sulk in the Iliad.
- No creators of the Iliad and the Odyssey
- The Iliad ends with the funeral of Hector.
- The 'Iliad' ends with the funeral of Hector.
- There is another mythical personage of this name in the Iliad.
- He is copiously quoted in the Venetus A scholia on the Homeric 'Iliad'.
- A perfect example of this stratagem is the role of Thersites in 'The Iliad'.
- In addition, the Games included a reading of both the Odyssey and the Iliad.
- August 26, 2008 at 6:28 am rong epic poem. teh iliad is about the trojan war
- But to drop into prose again, and have done with this iliad of odds and ends.
- Elsewhere in the Iliad, Homer attributes the rearing of Chimera to Amisodorus.
- I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroesepic on epic, iliad on iliad, and you always brothers in arms.
- I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes — epic on epic, iliad on iliad, and you always brothers in arms.
- I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes -- epic on epic, iliad on iliad, and you always brothers in arms.
- I gave a short talk about the iLiad and digital paper and called upon the college instructors to look into developing software, preferably open software, for the iliad.
- Yahweh or Allah (from whichever lens we're viewing it), are always only 1 generation away from being placed on the bookshelves next to the iliad and odysey where the bible and the koran belong.
- Between facts and fables, the evidence with regard to the tonsils and their functions seems to establish the conclusion that they have been wrongfully and foolishly held responsible for "an iliad of ills."
- Such an iliad of woes would have expanded itself _seriatim_, and by a long procession, from the one original mischief of depending for daily bread upon those who might suddenly become enemies or tools of enemies.